Sneak-peek at NEW WindowBlinds skins

Published on June 3, 2021 By Tatiora In Stardock Blog

WindowBlinds is one of our software products that has been around for quite a long time - longer than I've been at Stardock, at any rate! If you're unfamiliar with it, WindowBlinds allows you to customize the look and feel of your taskbar, window frames, and more. You can make your desktop look unique by choosing from several different styles and skins and adjusting them to suit your personal tastes.

I think one of my absolute favorite features of WindowBlinds 10 is the randomization. If I like a bunch of skins, I can use this option to have my computer cycle through them at random intervals, giving me a fresh look and a bit of a surprise every time I boot up. The per-application skinning is great for variety, too - I can use one skin for my word processing software, and use a different skin for something like Premiere.

But, I digress! Recently, we've been developing some new skins for WindowBlinds and today I get to give you a little sneak peek of what's coming. PLEASE NOTE: These are not 100% final and some aspects of these may change before they are available.

Let's have a look!

Aero Executive

NeXTSTEP

Open Windows

AbraCadabra

Aero Metal

Aquarium

Dragon

Elegance

Aero Midnight

Airframe

Driftwood

Parchment

PlasticXP

Whew! That's a lot of new skins. They'll be available soon, but in the meantime, let me ask you this: which one is your favorite? Share with me!

Comments (Page 2)

AceMatrix

on Jun 04, 2021

Chasbo

reply 15

Some of these are skins that you had to buy. If you bought the original are you going to have to buy the new ones?

Good question. I bought Aero Midnight from Stardock back in the day, It's still in my downloads list at Stardock.

-- Ace --

alphabyte

on Jun 05, 2021

Wonderful news and very thankful for the updates to these themes! I, too, would love to see classic themes from Mike Bryant, Tiggz, Essorant, danilloOc, ^^Gabriel, treetog, Apocalypse_67, Z71, and many other artists to receive Windows 10 upgrades!

delve-miller

on Jun 21, 2021

looking forward to these. esp dragon

The-Avatar-of-Virtues

on Jun 26, 2021

I love Mr.Folden's "NeXTSTEP" skin.

I have used this skin over 20 years on "MS-Windows" since Mar. 2001.

So, I'm really looking forward to seeing your NeXTSTEP Style Skin!

This comment is abridged edition of my post to you, which is here below URL:

https://forums.stardock.com/505645/a-long-comment-onto-mstatioras-post-on-stardock-blog .

the Post has a screenshot of my "Windows 10 desktop".

My rebuited "Mr. Folden's NeXTSTEP" as MsStyle file is almost perfectly working on

"Windows 10 Pro ver.1909(Build 18363.959)".

tonne

on Jun 28, 2021

Abracadabra is my favo

ALMonty

on Jun 28, 2021

The way I got Aero MidNight was to download Theme Manager I didn't have to pay for it.

RedneckDude

on Jun 28, 2021

So when and how can we get these skins?

Sed

on Jun 29, 2021

Driftwood in a wood color has been with me a long time

RBLevin

on Jun 29, 2021

Need Mac classic OS (System 9) and Mac OS X skins.

tedpacheco

on Jun 29, 2021

There are many of them that I like a lot, like Aero Executive, Parchment, but "AbracaCadabra" is definitely top on my list.

beverly comer

on Jun 29, 2021

Great skins.

My favorite skin for all time is Psycho by skoriginals. I am still using this skin (on windows 10). The skin has not been updated since 2006. and it would really be a gift to see it updated for windows 10.

Weboh

on Jul 01, 2021

It's nice to see you're updating these classic WindowBlinds skins. Any chance you could do the same for old IconPackager sets? It's hard to find decent sets that work properly on new Windows versions.

1nsomn1ac

on Jul 02, 2021

Weboh

reply 27

I feel you, but i don’t think stardock will do that, only the author can do it, but don’t expect much.

but no worries, you could do it yourself if you have photoshop & iconworkshop.

the problem with old ip pack can’t work well with new windows is because icons size mostly only 128x128px, while it needs 256x256px at least. sometimes even old 256px also have problem, but it can be solved.

I’ve rebuilt some old cool ip pack, always works, these are the steps:

1. batch convert 128px ico to png with iconworkshop.

2. batch resize from 128px png to 256px with photoshop.

3. reconvert 256px png to ico with iconworkshop again.

4. create live folders to be included in the ip pack. If you can’t create, just use live folders from other ip pack, recolor if needed.

5. rebuild the new 256px icons to ip via ip package builder.

6. Save with different name.

all steps will be done in 15-20 minutes per pack when you have done it several times

here some proof to encourage you, good luck

2of3

on Jul 08, 2021

beverly comer

reply 26

Shawn has unfortunately retired permanently from skinning. I'd love to see him back, but that's not likely to happen, I'm afraid.

tedpacheco

on Jul 08, 2021

Does anyone know when theses skins shown at the beginning of this thread will be available?

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